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enHow Equity Crowdfunding Stands to Help Women in Businesshttp://ventureneer.com/vblog/how-equity-crowdfunding-stands-help-women-business
<p dir="ltr">By Clark Buckner</p>
<p dir="ltr">Female entrepreneurs face certain obstacles that their male counterparts may never have to consider. For instance, according to <a href="http://www.ventureneer.com/">Ventureneer</a> Founder and President Geri Stengel, women in business typically &ldquo;start with about half of the capital&rdquo; that male entrepreneurs do. In her upcoming report on equity crowdfunding for women in business, Stengel hopes to reverse that trend.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Rewards-Based Crowdfunding vs. Equity Crowdfinding</strong><br />
<img alt="" src="http://ventureneer.com/sites/default/files/istock_000009311779xsmall.jpg" style="width: 225px; height: 129px; float: left;" />Stengel notes the differences between the most well-known crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, and equity crowdfunding platforms. Kickstarter is a rewards-based platform where a user typically receives a product or service when they back a project. On the other hand, equity-based crowdfunding platforms, like <a href="http://www.earlyshares.com/">EarlyShares</a> or <a href="https://angel.co/">AngelList</a>, offer shares of a company, similar to what a person would buy on the stock market. They won&rsquo;t receive a product or service, but they may receive financial rewards in the long-term.</p>
<p><strong>A Roadmap for Public Equity Crowdfunding</strong><br />
Because of recent changes to Title II of the Jobs Act, companies can now publicly ask for equity funding, which has led to a rise in crowdfunding equity platforms. However, Ventureneer&rsquo;s research has shown that female entrepreneurs tend to ask for funding privately more often than they do publicly. Stengel&rsquo;s upcoming report aims to offer these businesswomen a roadmap for how they can effectively use public appeals through social media, email newsletters, and other public marketing strategies to raise more money for their respective companies and entrepreneurial pursuits. Even for smaller companies just starting out, technology solutions like <a href="http://technologyadvice.com/marketing-automation/smart-advisor/?utm_campaign=link+building&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=tech+conferences&amp;utm_source=ventureneer.com&amp;utm_term=marketing+automation&amp;tid=events_geri#guide">marketing automation</a> make it possible to efficiently connect with large groups of people through these mediums and grow those relationships over time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Stengel noted that such strategies are &ldquo;critical in helping you reach out, whether it&#39;s email or social media, making it easier for you to do the outreach to the people you already know.&rdquo; In other words, entrepreneurs should learn how to use the many tools of digital connection at their disposal in order to maximize their potential crowdfunding results.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Vist the <a href="http://ventureneer.com/overview-0">&ldquo;Crowdfunding Report&rdquo;</a> page at Ventureneer.com to learn more about their forays into crowdfunding, or connect with them on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/ventureneer">@ventureneer</a>. Lastly, visit <a href="https://plumalley.co/">PlumAlley</a> in early January 2015 to support or follow along with Stengel&rsquo;s crowdfunded report on crowdfunding.&nbsp;</p>
<p>To hear more about how women in business can best utilize equity crowdfunding, listen to the full TechnologyAdvice interview.</p>
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<p><em>This interview was conducted by Clark Buckner of TechnologyAdvice, an Inc. 5000 company that is dedicated to educating, advising, and connecting the buyers and sellers of business technology. Clark hosts the TechnologyAdvice Podcast, and also keeps tabs on news and events in the company&rsquo;s <a href="http://technologyadvice.com/events/?tid=Events_BDconf">tech conference calendar</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/ClarkBuckner/status/468747267193573379">Tweet him</a> a hello or connect with him on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarkbuckner">LinkedIn</a>.</em></p>
http://ventureneer.com/vblog/how-equity-crowdfunding-stands-help-women-business#commentsAnalysisHow Equity Crowdfunding Stands to Help Women in BusinessSmall Business Women EntrepreneurshipMon, 19 Jan 2015 14:30:49 +0000Guest Blogger3237 at http://ventureneer.comHow To Ensure An Angel Or VC Is The Right Match For Youhttp://ventureneer.com/vblog/how-ensure-angel-or-vc-right-match-you
<p>Like marriage, the relationship between an entrepreneur and her investor can go wrong. The relationship is more than just money and it&rsquo;s important to know if you&rsquo;re compatible. &ldquo;You may not be getting married forever, but you are shacking up for a long time,&rdquo; said Lori Hoberman, Chair of the Emerging Companies / Venture Capital practice,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chadbourne.com/" target="_blank">Chadbourne &amp; Parke.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ventureneer.com/vblog/how-ensure-angel-or-vc-right-match-you" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://ventureneer.com/vblog/how-ensure-angel-or-vc-right-match-you#commentsAnalysisSmall Business Women EntrepreneurshipWed, 21 May 2014 04:00:42 +0000Geri Stengel3204 at http://ventureneer.com8 Entrepreneurial Lessons From A Two-Time Olympic Championhttp://ventureneer.com/vblog/8-entrepreneurial-lessons-two-time-olympic-champion
<p dir="ltr">Bet you didn&rsquo;t know that playing sports frequently lays the foundation for women&rsquo;s entrepreneurial success, according to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/Elite_female_athletes_to_exceptional_leaders/%24FILE/Elite%20female%20athletes%20and%20exceptional%20leaders%20Rio%20event.pdf" target="_blank">From elite female athletes to exceptional leaders: For all the places sport will take you.</a>&nbsp;Participation in sports correlates with leadership success. A whopping 80% of women executives played sports growing up, and 69% said sports helped them develop leadership skills that contributed to their professional success, according to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-nationwide-research-finds-successful-women-business-executives-dont-just-talk-a-good-game-they-played-one-75898622.html" target="_blank">From the Locker Room to the Boardroom: A Survey on Sports in the Lives of Women Business Executives.</a></p>
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<p>Julia Pimsleur grew up speaking both English and French. No surprise, her parents developed the highly regarded Pimsleur Method of teaching foreign languages for adults. She knew the benefits of being bilingual &mdash; better memory, analytic abilities, and problem-solving skills. She also recognized the value of being multilingual in an increasingly integrated global economy.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The number of women starting businesses is soaring &mdash; it&rsquo;s 50% higher than the overall rate of startup businesses. But the percentage of women-owned businesses that break through the $1 million glass ceiling is less than one third the rate for &nbsp;businesses led by men.</p>
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<p>As a consultant who helps small businesses grow and as a teacher of entrepreneurship (Kauffman FastTrac facilitator and former adjunct professor at The&nbsp;<a href="http://www.forbes.com/colleges/the-new-school/">New School</a>), I get asked all the time if&nbsp;<a href="http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/">entrepreneurs</a>&nbsp;are born, made or accidental. Ruta Aidis, project director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thegedi.org/research/womens-entrepreneurship-index" target="_blank">The Gender Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (Gender-GEDI)</a>&nbsp;and I are discussing whether U.S. high-growth women entrepreneurs are born, made or come apart through happenstance as part of the research she is doing. I&rsquo;m helping her flesh out her quantitative research in 30 countries with case studies about how U.S. women lead their companies to greatness.</p>
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<p>Female entrepreneurs get it: Women have become the power users of technologies such as the internet, mobile, and social networking.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Female users are the unsung heroines behind the most engaging, fastest growing, and most valuable consumer internet and e-commerce companies. &nbsp;Especially when it comes to social and shopping, women rule the Internet,&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/20/why-women-rule-the-internet/" target="_blank">wrote Aileen Lee in TechCrunch.</a>&nbsp;Lee is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers, a venture capital firm.</p>
<p><a href="http://ventureneer.com/vblog/4-steps-scratching-your-entrepreneurial-itch" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://ventureneer.com/vblog/4-steps-scratching-your-entrepreneurial-itch#commentsHow ToSmall Business Women EntrepreneurshipThu, 27 Mar 2014 11:15:57 +0000Geri Stengel3196 at http://ventureneer.comA Surefire Way To Increase The Number Of Jobs Created In The Tech Sectorhttp://ventureneer.com/vblog/surefire-way-increase-number-jobs-created-tech-sector
<p dir="ltr">When you&rsquo;re successful, you don&rsquo;t think &nbsp;about changing the way you do things. But, more and more, data is showing that changing the way technology companies do things could improve their success. The technology sector is not tapping all the know-how that is available to it. Imagine how many more jobs would be created if the industry grew to its full potential!</p>
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<p>It&rsquo;s nearly Valentine&rsquo;s Day so it only seems natural that I do a story about the business of love.</p>
<p><a href="http://ventureneer.com/vblog/7-lessons-finding-love-can-teach-you-about-business" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://ventureneer.com/vblog/7-lessons-finding-love-can-teach-you-about-business#commentsAnalysisSmall Business Women EntrepreneurshipThu, 13 Feb 2014 15:02:01 +0000Geri Stengel3191 at http://ventureneer.comOverwork, binge working, and when to say "go home"http://ventureneer.com/vblog/overwork-binge-working-and-when-say-go-home
<p>By&nbsp;Carrie Winans</p>
<p><em>&ldquo;It took about 200 years for unions to get us a 40 hour work week and it took smartphones about 5 years to completely take them away&rdquo; &ndash; Bob Sullivan, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/54217482#54217482">NBC Nightly News</a>.</em></p>
<p>What do the United States, Argentina, and Sudan have in common? Surprisingly, it&rsquo;s overworked employees. With no required time off each <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/speedup-americans-working-harder-charts">week</a>, these nations share a chronic overwork epidemic.</p>
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